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Monthly Archives: May 2007

Kristeva, intertextuality, hypertext

25-May-07

Kristeva, intertextuality, hypertext The word’s status is thus defined horizontally (the word in the text belongs to both writing subject and addressee) as well as vertically (the word in the text is oriented towards an anterior or synchronic literary corpus) . . . each word (text) is an intersection of words (texts) where at least [...]

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Flâneur

18-May-07

Flâneur From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Look up flaneur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term “Flâneur” comes from the French verb flâner, which means “to stroll”. A flâneur is thus a person who walks the city in order to experience it. Because of the term’s usage and theorization by Charles [...]

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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics.

18-May-07

Hayles, N. Katherine How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. 364 p., 5 line drawings. 6 x 9 1999 Paper $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-226-32146-2 (ISBN-10: 0-226-32146-0) Fall 1998 In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the “bodies” that once carried it vanish into virtuality. [...]

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